Movie Review: The Son of No One

Three films into a critically dismissed, audience ignoring movie making career, it is becoming clearer why top drawer actors, from Robert Downey Jr. to Al Pacino, Diane Wiest to Chaz Palminteri flock to Dito Montiel’s movies.
And no, it doesn’t involve c


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Nick Diaz next in line for title-shot after GSP asks for fight


UFC welterweight champ Georges St. Pierre has a reputation for being one of the most polite, even-keeled individuals in Mixed Martial Arts. However, after the curtain closed on UFC 137, it appears “Rush” was ready to rumble with Nick Diaz based on the St


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Pacino Got His Start in Stand-Up

He told me some of his routines and they were great!

Scarface star Al Pacino made his first foray into showbusiness as a stand-up comedian.
The Scarface legend is set to shock fans of his dramatic work with a cameo in Adam Sandler's upcoming comedy Jac


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Goings on About Town: Movies

A documentary about the actress, directed by Angelina Maccarone. Opening Nov. 4. (Lincoln Plaza Cinemas.)
Patrick Wang directed and co-stars in this drama, about a boy who is raised by two fathers and becomes the subject of a custody battle when one of t


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Travoltas Gotti movie put on hold due to financial issues

John Travolta's upcoming movie, 'Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father', has reportedly been put on hold due to financial issues.
The movie, which is about the notorious Gotti family, stars Travolta as the late Mafia boss John Gotti, who died in prison in 20


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Movie News Wrap Up: October 29th, 2011

Travolta and Pacino’s Gotti film bites the dust; Will Smith is the $50 million man – at least on Independence Day; Charlie Sheen is Charles Swan III and Sean Penn as well as Robert De Niro team for The Comedian.
1. Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father has b


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Sense of smell

For blushing brides, here are sweet tips from a renowned French perfumer.
I CAN still vividly recall watching Al Pacino in the 1992 movie Scent Of A Woman.
Though the film is famous for many reasons, one of the most memorable scenes is when Al Pacinos ch


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Fast Breaks: Ryan Quigtar

CORAL GABLES, Fla. – They are stories of perseverance. Stories about growing up, becoming men and being a part of a family. One-by-one, we hear from them. These are the Miami Hurricanes...
Ryan Quigtar | Guard | Senior | Skyway, Wash.
I was raised in Se


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Third Period Open Thread

So we can pump the brakes on dumbassed ideas like bag skates the next day and dressing King for the sake of sitting someone, no?
"I worry that we're reaching that point where college-age kids don't know what goatse is anymore."
Can we put bags over King


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This week in movies, TV and music

Harold Lee (John Cho) and Kumar Patel (Kal Penn) return to the big screen on a holiday-themed adventure.
Ben Stiller and Eddie Murphy team up in a comedy about a group of hardworking guys' attempt to rob a businessman's high-rise apartment after being sw


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Reggie Jackson not trying to rewrite history, but merely set record straight

It would have been more of an ah-ha moment if Reggie Jackson had dropped a bomb about the late Yankee manager Billy Martin being a pleasant pacifist who collected butterflies and signed checks with a smiley face.
But history has shown us that Martin was


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Suicide machine – yours for $200k...Dr Death's grisly belongings go on sale

At memorabilia auction of items belonging to Jack Kevorkian, Thanatron device is the top attraction They may not have known Jack personally, but admirers with deep pockets and morbid persuasions were last night hoping to purchase everything from his hat


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Book gives backstory of classic hockey movie

I’m not sure what the on-board entertainment is on the Guelph Storm bus this weekend for the eight hour trip to Sudbury, but chances are that at some point it involves a showing of the movie Slap Shot.
I’ll admit it; I’m a Slap Shot junkie. I love its ra


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Pre-Holidays bring J. Edgar , Twilight, Extraordinary 9/11 Drama


When the year-end triple holiday period approaches, Hollywood has schedules packed for Thanksgiving, Christmas and just after the New Year.  Although January tends to be “left overs,” the first and second months of 2012 will each contain lead blockbuster


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Kaitlin Olson Talks It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia Episode 7.07

What's The Gang to do on a rainy day but play the most twisted (and self-made) board game ever. Dee (Kaitlin Olson) and Dennis (Glenn Howerton) square off against Mac (Rob McElhenney), Charlie (Charlie Day) and Frank (Danny DeVito) in this battle of wits


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Craig Gass brings his comedy and celebrity voices to Ann Arbor this weekend

Craig Gass will be at the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase this Thursday through Saturday
On Wednesday, stand-up comedian Craig Gass sat in the back of the Ann Arbor Comedy Showcase watching local comedians perform their routines at the club's open mic night. G


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Too Bad This Kid is a Chiefs Fan

This darn kid has got me motivated for some football!! If only he was wearing the right colors! Someone put him in the Chargers locker room and have him talk to the guys at half time and maybe we could step on that gas pedal!!
If you don’t know where th


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How Johnny Depp's best-reviewed films measure up

In collaboration with Rotten Tomatoes and its parent company, Flixster, The Chronicle presents the critical consensus of Johnny Depp's best-reviewed films. His latest film, "The Rum Diary," is now showing at Bay Area theaters. (The figure listed is the p


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It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Kaitlin Olson Gets Under the Surface of Sweet Dee!

It’s not always easy to enjoy a series in which every character is reprehensible, but It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia [FX, Thursdays, 10/9C] frequently succeeds in making its audience do just that. One of the reasons it can do that is the presence of K


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Cowlishaw: Derek Holland's masterful Game 4 performance ranks as World Series' biggest surprise

ST. LOUIS — Every World Series has its share of surprises. The rain that hit St. Louis Wednesday and pushed Game 6 back to Thursday night provided time to reflect on the three biggest surprises of a World Series that has the Rangers one victory short of


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Holiday movies have brand-name appeal


Over the coming weeks, Hollywood studios will trot out brand-name Oscar contenders, crowd-pleasing family films and snazzy-looking action movies, with several releases clearly going head-to-head. We'll see dueling biopics with Leonardo DiCaprio as J. Edg


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Actress Jessica Chastain is enjoying a meteoric rise

So far this year, she has starred in films with Brad Pitt and Helen Mirren, played a key role in "The Help," dazzled at the Sundance, Cannes and Toronto film festivals and landed the top two films at the box office in early September.
And Jessica Chasta


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Lindsay Lohan's Path to Playboy

“You will never see me in a nude scene. Then there’s no mystery for my private life.”
Lindsay Lohan uttered those famous last words in a 2005 interview with Access Hollywood. In those halcyon days, the teen actress was promoting the Disney family film He


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Adam Sandler: Gym with Sunny & Sadie!


Adam Sandler takes his girls, Sunny and Sadie, to play at a gym on Saturday (October 22) in Santa Monica, Calif.
The 45-year-old funnyman carried Sunny, 2, while Sadie, 5, stayed close to dad as they walked inside.
Adam will hit the big screen next oppos


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Meet the new redhead taking Hollywood by storm. . .

She's the hot new thing straight out of Hollywood's glorious past. Classically beautiful red-head Jessica Chastain is in the middle of a one-woman takeover of the movie industry.Unheard of six months ago, by the end of the year the 30-year-old California


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Rita Moreno And John Leguizamo On Life In Hollywood

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Rita Moreno — the only Latino performer to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — is reprising some of her most memorable characters in a solo show at the Berkeley


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Writer Michael Pollan rings in National Food Day in Cleveland

Ken LightMichael Pollan,"Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food."
A genial Michael Pollan and a packed Ohio Theatre made a meal Monday night of National Food Day, a stab by food activists at mimicking Earth Day.
Proponents


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Made U Look: Photos From Future's 'Tony Montana' Video Set


Future has been building a steady buzz with his recent mixtapes, including September’s Streetz Calling and July’s Free Bricks but the June release True Story still boasts his most popular single to date. “Tony Montana” took off thanks in part to a featur


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Soccer Field Size – Does it really matter for the players?

I love the Heineken ads that have avid soccer fans getting all warmed up on the beer because it depicts a reality that not all of us have 'greatness thrust upon us'. Of course, not all soccer players were gifted like the current soccer geniuses such as C


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Five Favorite Films with Bruce Robinson

Next, we have a wide-ranging chat with Robinson about The Rum Diary, adapting Thompson's book, his return to directing and working with star-producer Depp.








If British writer-director Bruce Robinson had


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At Broadway Box Office This Fall, the Play's the Thing

Ticket sales for straight plays on Broadway were notably strong last week, according to theater box office data released on Monday, with most of those non-musical productions making gains in their grosses in an otherwise flat week for Broadway. Indeed, m


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Video: Haverford School senior Dean Feinman is Main Line Student of the Week


(Feinman, a senior, has been a member of the school’s Honor Council since his sophomore year. He is head of the school’s Poetry Club, and runs Open Mic Nights at Haverford School. He will be appearing in the school’s fall play, “Twelve Angry Men,” as the


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The Son of No One

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A young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, and an old secret threatens to destroy his life and his family. -


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Moreno, Leguizamo Talk Latin Life In 'Hollywouldn't'

Rita Moreno — the only Latino performer to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — is reprising some of her most memorable characters in a solo show at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. Up the coast in Los Angeles, John Leguizamo, who co-starred


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'I would want De Niro to watch Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara'

Close on the heels of the news of Tannishtha Chatterjee doing the big ticket "Anna Karenina" with Keira Knightley and Jude Law comes the news of Anupam Kher acting alongside Robert De Niro in David O Russell's "The Silver Linings Playbook". On Friday nig


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The roles Steve McQueen almost had

“Ocean’s Eleven” (1960) -- McQueen was a favorite of Frank Sinatra’s but passed after getting advice that going Rat Pack was career suicide. “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” (1961) -- Angrily unable to accept due to filming schedule of TV show “Wanted: Dead or A


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Insanity in East Lansing: Michigan State Topples Wisconsin with Epic Finish

Those aren’t nearly enough wows to describe the finish to the Michigan State-Wisconsin game that we just saw.
Tied 31 all, with four seconds remaining, Michigan State quarterback Kirk Cousins rolled to his right, chucked a midfield prayer pass and hoped


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Badass Terrified Of Puppies

Ahhhh stupid, full of shit, and fucking nuts.
well, great. now nothing else i ever watch will measure up to this 2 minute clip. thanks, matt.
Show me on the Pound Puppy where the bad man in the van full of puppies touched you.
All these puppies are clear


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Red hot: How Jessica Chastain became Hollywood's most wanted

You'll be seeing a lot of Jessica Chastain this year – and Oscar glory already beckons with her latest film, The Help. Not that her career needs any... There is a giggle and a "Ssssh!" from the bedroom of Jessica Chastain's hotel suite. Her mother and at


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How three words from Mario Puzo saved him

There are writers - I fear not a few Canadian authors fall into this category - who are fearless when it comes to the prospect of boring the reader. "Let them fight off ennui in pursuit of my brilliant prose," is their attitude. At the other extreme are


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Payday: The Heist Review

Back during the glory days for the N64, at the height of its popularity, Rare released Perfect Dark. Console shooters were hitting a high water mark they’d never known before, on the back of a stupendous multiplayer offering.
Among the coolest bits that


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Free films, special shows, Oct. 21-27

FREE FILMS “WESTWORLD” Gunslingers and dance girls are actually robots. 2 p.m. today, KC Waldo Library. “SHAUN OF THE DEAD” Brits have fun with the living dead. 1:30 p.m. Saturday, KC Central Library. “DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: RODRICK RULES” Brothers bond


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Exclusive: Katie Holmes has a dangerous caller in new 'The Son of No One' clip

Who knew Katie Holmes would have a busier year than her husband?  Holmes has already starred in the Guillermo del Toro "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark" (a partial victim of a bad release date) and will be appearing opposite Adam Sandler and, um, Adam Sandle


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Pacino Lands One-off Radio Show

Legendary actor Al Pacino will reminisce about his lengthy career for a one-off radio documentary in Britain next month. The Scarface icon is set to take over BBC Radio 4 and talk to listeners about his work as a director and his new movie Wilde's Salome


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Today's media stories from the papers


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A disheveled Courtney Love gets award from an Irish university


Courtney Love was presented with an Honorary Patronage of the Philosophical Society at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. The Hole singer attended the college for two semesters when she was a teen, and joins other celebrities -- including Al Pacino, Sal


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Kiwi director Andrew Niccol hits the big time

Years before he made the world think with the provocative 1997 science fiction film Gattaca and 1998's Oscar-nominated satirical comedy The Truman Show, New Zealand writer-director Andrew Niccol flew to New York and caught the subway into Manhattan.

He


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Keaton was Woody's 'endearing oaf'

NEW YORK (AP) - She would know: Going out with Woody Allen was like being in a Woody Allen movie, Diane Keaton writes in an upcoming memoir.
The Academy Award-winning actress starred with Allen in such favorites as “Sleeper” and “Love and Death” and got


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Courtney Love receives university award

Pop star Shakira has denied reports that she had been booked to perform at a birthday celebration for the leader of the war-torn Russian republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov.

London - Rocker Courtney Love has been given an honorary patronage


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Greatest Ensemble Casts

Great ensemble casts don't come around that often but Steven Soderbergh has assembled a might impressive one this week for his new movie Contagion.
So to celebrate the release of the movie we take a look at some of the movie that have assembled might fin


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‘London Boulevard’ trailer: Just when Colin Farrell thought he was out, they pull him back in

You can separate Colin Farrell’s career into three distinctive acts. In the first act, he was the scrappy Irish up-and-comer, memorably stealing scenes in dreck like Hart’s War and Daredevil and successfully rousting Al Pacino from his late-career snooze


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A look back at when Rangers last won in Vancouver

The last time the New York Rangers went into Vancouver and beat the Canucks was Oct. 11, 1997. Wayne Gretzky registered his 50th career hat trick as the Rangers emerged with a 6-3 victory.

A little more than 14 years later, the Rangers will get a chance


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Nike LeBron 9 – “Scarface”


It was the classic Horatio Alger story, though tainted heavily with modern day vices, the 1983 film Scarface was one of rags to riches on the back drop of murders, money, and power. A remake based on a 1932 film of the same name, the Oliver Stone penned,


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NUFC Latest News: Pardew's belief in his players inspired Newcastle

CHEICK TIOTE today explained how Alan Pardew's belief in his players shone through during another inspirational half-time team talk.
Pardew famously delivered a speech of Any Given Sunday star Al Pacino’s standards last season when the Magpies fought bac


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Open letter to Sir Bob Geldof and other Honorary Patrons of Trinity University Philosophical Society

Following on from the cancellation of his speaking appointment at Trinity University's Philosophical Society in Dublin this Thursday, Nick Griffin MEP has written this open letter to Sir Bob Geldof, Al Pacino, Bertie Ahern and other Honorary Patrons of t


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Wild coach Mike Yeo talks/Bob Sansevere listens: 'I got a lot of Yay-Os growing up'

and do the right things.
Most people who don't know me think I'm Chinese, or think I have Chinese heritage because of my last name. My name is from yeoman. Along the way, it kind of split to where there was Yeo and there was Yeomen. Most of the time when


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Ellen Barkin vs. Samuel L. Jackson: Who has the filthier Twitter feed?

Samuel L. Jackson, distinguished tweeter, meet .... (Andy Kropa - GETTY IMAGES) During the past week, Ellen Barkin and Samuel L. Jackson have both become avid users of Twitter. And while it might not initially seem that these two actors have much in comm


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“Gotti” Movie Exec Producer: “I’ve never encountered anything so difficult in my life”


Exclusive: Both screenwriter James Toback and finance man Salvatore Carpanzano say they never approved a recent announcement naming them Executive Producers of “Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father.” The movie, still lacking a start date, is in financial tr


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Argentine tango struts into Wellfleet

Were you transfixed by Robert Duvall's dancing in “Assassination Tango” or Al Pacino's magic moment of tango in “Scent of a Woman”? Or perhaps you have been impressed by celebrities moving to beautiful and nostalgic tango music on “Dancing With the Stars


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Robert Downey Jr. Accepts American Cinematheque Award, Asks Hollywood To ‘Forgive’ Mel Gibson

Hollywood is a tribute mood this week.  After Thursday night’s TV Academy salute to Carl Reiner as well as the Santa Barbara Film Festival honoring Michael Doughlas with the award named after his father Kirk on the same night, the trend continued Friday


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What Shoulda’ Won the 1997 Best Picture Oscar?

Lots of good movies were released in 1997, and hardly any great ones. On the other hand, Will Shortz celebrates 1997 for “Ulee’s Gold.”
“Titanic” – This may mark the only time that I’ve ever completely agreed with that hopeless douche Peter Travers. If m


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The Hunt for Tony Blair, Channel 4, FridaySigned by Katie Price, Sky Living, Monday

Bush is a hoodlum, Maggie a Norma Desmond diva – and Blair and Mandelson a pitch-perfect joy 'How many more of these damned books are we going to get?" scowled Robbie Coltrane's hard-boiled detective, throwing down a pile of New Labour memoirs, in The Hu


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Apple needs a new Jobs

The biggest question about the future of Apple is how it will fare without Steve Jobs. Perhaps it’s too soon, but there is some speculation already about how long Tim Cook will continue as CEO at Apple. Some executives in media circles think Apple should


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Rock music sets Hooters' 'Raack N Roll' apart from other jiggle shows


After nearly six years and a bankruptcy, Hooters Hotel finally had the brilliant idea of living up to its name.
Creditors might have asked a lot sooner why the troubled boutique casino's showroom hosted a Prince imitator, an active-senior Elvis, a juggli


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Hudson artist goes ape over gorillas

do the mural), I just didn't realize how quickly his vision was going to come together," said a slyly grinning Matthews, as Campofredano worked inside the Gorilla Cage at Benson Park on Tuesday.
gorilla (formerly known as Colossus), which Matthews arran


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Revolutionary road

Yash Chopra, Dia Mirza, Ramesh Sippy and Amit Khanna at the inauguration of Mumbai Film Festival
At the Mumbai Film Festival, director Hugh Hudson seeks appreciation for Revolution Revisited, whose original version had forced Al Pacino to take a four-yea


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Seymour Hoffman on politics, directing and why he feels lucky

A scorching day in Venice, and Philip Seymour Hoffman really isn't in the mood. Sitting in an airless room in the Excelsior Hotel, dressed in a sweat-soaked black polo shirt, at one point he mocks falling asleep. He taps a bottle top on the table incessa


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Dr. Jeereddi Prasad to receive Arthritis Foundation's Wyman Humanitarian Award

Inland Valley physician, business leader and philanthropist Jeereddi A. Prasad will receive the prestigious Jane Wyman Humanitarian Award on Nov. 2 at the Arthritis Foundation's 24th annual "Commitment to a Cure" Awards Gala at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel


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Event: The Godfather on Sunday, Oct 16 at Music Box Theatre


The second-best movie on the American Film Institute’s top films of the past century… No. 1 on the best-movie lists of IMDB, Metacritic, and Rotten Tomatoes… Entertainment Weekly’s greatest film of all time… The Godfather isn’t just the greatest mob movi


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6th Rome Film Fest Sets Official Selection

Fifteen films are on tap for the Official Selection at the 6th International Rome Film Festival, taking place October 27 - November 4 in the eternal city. As previously announced, the festival will open with “The Lady” by Luc Besson with Michelle Yeoh an


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'The Trip' gives funny impression of Coogan and Bryden


Released on DVD and Netflix Instant on Tuesday, The Trip makes you wonder just how big a jerk British funnyman Steve Coogan is in real life. Edited down from a six-episode BBC series from 2010, The Trip presents Coogan as an acid-tongued, fictionalized v


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Winnipeg Jets: 7 Keys to Success in the 2011-12 NHL Sesaon

It pretty much goes without saying that when you're fishing the puck out of your own net, you're not going to win many games. 
As the Thrashers, this team was 29th (out of 30 teams) in goals against last year.  They allowed a goal per game more than the


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In Time (2011) Music By Craig Armstrong


In Time is the latest futuristic thriller by writer/director Andrew Niccol, who wrote the memorable Truman Show with Jim Carrey as well as another futuristic thriller Gattaca, Steven Spielberg's The Terminal starring Tom Hanks, the gunrunning thriller Lo


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Will Money Woes Bump Off John Gotti Film?

All the while that producer Marc Fiore was making pricey pay or play deals and holding press conferences in New York and Cannes to trumpet John Travolta, Al Pacino, Lindsay Lohan and Joe Pesci taking part in Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father, there were


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Nastassja Kinski


One of the most strikingly exotic beauties to ever grace the silver screen, German-born actress first became a household name after starring in Roman Polanski’s 1979 film Tess.  Though her career certainly had its ups and downs in the years since, and th


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Evening with Al Pacino at WinStar World Casino

The man who is in rare company to have won the Triple Crown of Acting -- Oscar, Emmy and Tony -- will be at WinStar World Casino on October 14 with a performance entitled An Evening with Al Pacino. The show will feature a discussion on his life, acting c


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Lindsay Lohan Not Yet Confirmed For Gotti Flick

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this for the rest of her days, so the chance to star with Al Pacino in a near-guaranteed smash probably isn/default.jpg" />

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AG fines Apthorp, halts sales, orders refunds

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Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has shut down the sales office at the Apthorp, fined the developers $190,000 and ordered rescission for all contracted buyers following an investigatio


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Pals pay tribute to Downey, Jr.

Congrats to Robert Downey Jr., the recipient of the 2011 American Cinematheque Award, honouring an "extraordinary artist currently making a significant contribution to the art of the motion picture."
Now, you're probably thinking, sure, but the guy's onl


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watch it: Kevin Spacey’s brilliant impersonations

Is there anyone who hasn’t gotten a few good laughs out of Kevin Spacey’s hilarious impersonations? If so, you are in for a treat. Here’s Spacey’s takes on Jimmy Stewart, Johnny Carson, Katharine Hepburn, Clint Eastwood, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando, Chri


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The Natural: Michael McKean is Better Known for ‘Big Bottom’ Than the Bard


In 1979, when he was 32 and appearing on television every week as Lenny, Laverne and Shirley’s dopey neighbor, Michael McKean first read King Lear. He had just started wearing glasses, and, one morning, he reached for his copy of Shakespeare’s complete w


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Flyers goalie Bryzgalov looks to home debut

For the Flyers, Wednesday's home opener against the Vancouver Canucks represents the beginning of a new era at the Wells Fargo Center. Welcome to Ilyadelphia. Ilya Bryzgalov, the gifted Russian goalie whose acquisition and signing caused the Great Makeov


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Including Easy A and Scarface


Sabrina Goes to Rome (Four, 6.30pm). And we’d be quite happy for her to stay there. (1998) 5
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (TV2, 7.30pm). The first of many sequels, bits of trilogies, quadrologies and films they just couldn’t let go of this


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Gotti movie 'on hold'

The Hollywood actor is due to star as late Mafia boss John Gotti, who died in prison in 2002, in upcoming movie Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father, alongside his real-life wife Kelly Preston and Al Pacino.
Filming is slated to begin in January (12) ahead


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Ryan Gosling and Jessica Chastain have an unconventional star quality

Fortune may have favored Gosling and Chastain, who will both turn 31 in the coming months, with an unplanned confluence of performances on-screen - ones they could lose themselves in; ones so distinctive that we couldn't help but pay attention to - but i


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Books of The Times: ‘Lucky Bruce,’ a Memoir by Bruce Jay Friedman - Review

Funny novels, like funny movies, rarely gain traction with prize committees. “People assume that it’s the gloomy buggers that are the serious ones,” Martin Amis has said, “but in fact, anyone who has ever been anywhere in fiction is funny.” A great comic


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The Darkness 2: Just a Bit Darker

The first Darkness game earned its "Mature" rating here in the States, with violent murders, tons of gore and enough cussing from series protagonist Jackie Estacado to make Al Pacino proud. And each time I've seen The Darkness II it appears this trend co


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Happily ever after and the stigma of being single

I just didn't realize it would take so long after the marriage, and the divorce, to find my happily ever after.
"As wonderful as things are at this moment," Rabbi Wyse promised, "it will get even better, better than you could ever imagine."
Touched by th


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Evan Rachel Wood's career matures with 'Ides of March'

Hollywood — Evan Rachel Wood arrives for an interview looking preppy and sporting a short new hairstyle.
"I did it just for me," she says with a smile. "I've been wanting to chop all my hair off for a really long time. It's kind of a risk but once it wa


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Actions spoke loudly


FOXBOROUGH - It had to feel good.
Bill Belichick’s never going to admit this, but there is a healthy obsession with the Jets at Gillette Stadium and it’s a great day any time you can pin a loss on the donkeys from New York.
You saw a little of this truth


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New Marilyn Beck & Stacy Jenel Smith for 10/10/2011

You've got to dive in — in the raw. We've got a commitment of 12 (shows) to do. I would think with this caliber of talent, we'd get a full season. They've been wooing Tim for a while." He adds, "We'll know after three or four are on the air."
Will Tim Al


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The Entertation Index: October 10

Still a safer bet than the stock market.
Bieber, Justin – The Beeb’s change of hairstyle from swoop to slightly different swoop cost one company a lot of money.  Bridge Direct CEO Jay Foreman says a manufacturing run of Bieberdolls were too far into prod


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Male Plastic Surgery

Here we go again! More speculation about which celebrities have and have not had plastic surgery. The only difference this time...the focus is on male celebrities. The celebrities in question in this particular The Daily Beast piece include Clint Eastwoo


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Vivek Oberoi becomes The Joker

Inspired by Heath Ledger's character in The Dark Knight for his role in Krissh sequel
Vivek Oberoi has been known to do things that stress out his family. One would think the actor has grown out of these antics, but it seems he's now going to extreme le


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Liverpool vs Man United is still the Prem's top derby, plus won't someone take pity and give Benitez a job?

Man ­United travel to Anfield as the ­hottest title favourites since, well, Chelsea at this stage last season.
Already top of the league, albeit on goal ­difference from rivals City, a win against the side they ‘knocked off the perch’ would be seen as an


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Television movies for the week of Oct. 9

Television movies for the week of Oct. 9 MOVIE RATINGS = Poor = Fair = Good = Excellent G = General audiences PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience CC = Closed captioned for hearing impaired ALPHABETICAL LIST


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Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father Has Been Put On Hold


I'm starting to think that the production of is totally and utterly cursed. It began when Nick Cassavetes, who had been hired to direct, decided to bail on the project. Then there was a great deal of drama with Lindsay Lohan, as we all tried to figure ou


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Say hello to little friend Al Pacino on October 14


This might be worth the drive to Thackerville, Oklahoma.
Actor Al Pacino will speak to fans at 9 p.m. Friday, October 14 at WinStar World Casino in Oklahoma. Called a "performance" instead of just a talk or lecture, Pacino will discuss his life and his c


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Comedian Caliendo to play Palace this weekend


Comedian Frank Caliendo will perform at The Palace of Auburn Hills this weekend.
George Kanter will open the show, which is scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. Saturday.
Tickets, which range from $29.50 to $49.50, are available at Palacenet.com, The Palace box


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John Travolta's Gotti Flick Imperiled


John Travolta's John Gotti biopic Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father has been put on hold after running out of cash, Showbiz411 reports. Gotti has been plagued by rumors of money problems seemingly since the day it was announced, but that hadn't stopped p


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This is COLUMBUS DAY!!!

I’d like to invite anyone whose name ends with a vowel (Persians excluded) to raise their hands, extend their middle fingers, and flip off the Native Americans, the hippies, and everyone else in the International Association of Crybabies who has a piss a


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Plan your weekend

1. Detroit Symphony Orchestra "Symphonie Fantastique" at Orchestra Hall at The Max: Pianist Michel Camilo will join the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, led by conductor Leonard Slatkin, in performing Hector Berlioz's masterpiece "Symphonie Fantastique." The


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George Clooney, Ryan Gosling stump for campaign-driven 'Ides of March'

"Everyone says be careful about George because he is such a prankster," says Evan Rachel Wood about George Clooney's penchant for pulling tricks on his cast members.


plot, "Ides" has drawn comparisons to some real-life campaigns, including those of


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Leaf peepers, it’s time for Caledon’s autumn Calvacade of Colour

Pat Brennan Special to the Star One of the best views of autumn’s colours in the Greater Toronto Area is from the first tee at the Devil’s Pulpit Golf Course in Caledon. But it’ll cost you $55,000 to see it. Rae Armstrong, course general manager, said yo


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Bidding on 'Godfather' script reaches $4K


LAS VEGAS, Oct. 6 (UPI) -- Bidding on an autographed script for "The Godfather," featured on TV's "Pawn Stars," has reached $4,000, Catholic Charities of Southern Nevada said. Diane Hutton, who works at the secondhand store where the screenplay was found


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Thelma & Louise (Score Album) Music By Hans Zimmer

Thelma & Louise was the surprise hit film of 1991 and it when it was all said and done, the film garned six Academy Award nominations both to Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis for Best Actress, Ridley Scott for Directing, Thom Noble for Best Editing and Adr


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'Fast Eddie' hits the skids


Lived the high life ... Edward Ormus Sharington Davenport , right, pictured with Simon Cowell. An entrepreneur from London whose lavish home was used in scenes from Oscar-winning film The King's Speech and for a less mainstream "porn disco" has been jail


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Michelle Pfeiffer, 53 says she's 'all for a little something here and there,' when asked about plastic surgery


She is known as one of the most beautiful Hollywood actresses of her generation.
But at 53-years-old, Michelle Pfeiffer says she wouldn't rule out any cosmetic enhancement in the future.
'I’m all for a little something here and there - fine,' the star


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Sam meets agents in pursuit of his Hollywood dream


In the picture from left: Michelle Sanchez, Gilda Sanchez, Sam Milby, Globe International Head Aileen Averion, and Gossip Girl Giselle Sanchez.
SYDNEY, Australia – In spite of the rains and an 11 degree freezing temperature in spring, 20,000 Filipinos f


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Puncture / *** (R)

"Puncture" dramatizes this dilemma with its based-on-life story about two low-rent Houston lawyers who take on the personal injury case of Vicky (Vinessa Shaw), a nurse who contracts AIDS after an accidental stick. They learn that her friend Jeffrey Danf


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Around Town: Black cinema, Sidney Lumet, monster movies and more


Halloween is coming early to the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theatre and Cinefamily’s Silent Movie Theater.
Director John Landis looks at monsters in the movies Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at the Egyptian. The director of 1978’s “Animal House,” th


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Lindsay Lohan's Partying In Paris: No Worries, Say 'Gotti' Producers

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With Lindsay Lohan's history of hard partying, one might think the producers of "Gotti: In the Shadow of My Father" -- her first major motion picture in four years -- wo


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'Ides of March' star Evan Rachel Wood making the right choices


Molly (Evan Rachel Wood) and Stephen (Ryan Gosling) have a drink and talk in the motel bar in the new drama "The Ides of March."
During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary


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It's ONN! Behind the Scenes at a Taping of Onion News Network, Season Two.

Season two of Onion News Network, the caustic send-up of cable news brought to you courtesy of the wisenheimers at The Onion, begins tonight on IFC at 10 p.m. Last week, the funny folks at ONN invited PAPER to their set at the historic Kaufman Astoria St


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Win One for the Gipper? Nah

In the movies, in the final moments leading up to the big game, the coach or manager nearly always stands up before his team and captures the moment, delivering a ready-made inspirational speech, with a life lesson or two thrown in.
In a scene from the f


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A Reflective, Charismastic John Leguizamo Performs His 'Ghetto Klown' in Hollywood

John Leguizamo's latest autobiographical one-man show, "Ghetto Klown," the fifth in a series that started with "Mambo Mouth" in 1991, captures the hyperbolically charismatic performer in a reflective, almost analytic, mode. Of course even a reflective an


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Ghetto Klown

John Leguizamo has anatomized his personal demons in several rollicking one-man shows. In his most recent one, Broadway transfer "Ghetto Klown," he recounts his adventures in the screen trade while anatomizing his personal demons once again. Which is to


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Theater review: 'Ghetto Klown' at the Ricardo Montalbán Theatre

John Leguizamo has been performing versions of his life onstage for so long now that catching up with his latest show, “Ghetto Klown,” is like reuniting with a favorite cousin, the funny one who makes those dutiful family events worth attending.
Ricochet


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‘Playboy Club’ isn’t sexy enough to draw in big male audience?

In this publicity image released by NBC, from left, Amber Heard, Naturi Naughton and Leah Renee are shown in a scene from "The Playboy Club." Set in the early 1960s, this NBC drama will be roughly contemporaneous with AMC's "Mad Men," which reigns as one


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Gotti Film Must Meet Financial Deadlines By This Week


Barry Levinson's Gotti movie starring John Travolta and Al Pacino is pret-ty close to being shut down if producer Mark Fiore doesn't meet financial deadlines by the end of this week.
"If Marc Fiore doesn’t come up with money this week, and doesn’t show t


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Rose McGowan to Star in 'Napa'


THR reports that Rose McGowan has signed on to star in Napa, a romantic thriller (or "rom-thrill," as we like to call it) about "a woman who after three tours of duty in Afghanistan returns to her hometown, where she is given the job of sheriff." The fil


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Jessica Chastain Interview

You totally hit the nail on the head. It is so hard to play that because you look at The Help or The Debt, there’s something there for me. I’m going to learn the accent, gain the weight, work on the way she walks -- you have a list of things you do when


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Decades After Breaking the Blue Wall of Silence, Ex-Cop Frank Serpico Enjoys the Quiet Life

At 75, Frank Serpico has come a long way from the days when he exposed rampant corruption in the New York Police Department in the 1960s, got shot in the face during a drug bust and subsequently was made famous by Al Pacino’s portrayal in Sidney Lumet’s


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10 Great Movies Featuring At Least 5 Oscar Nominated Actors


Last summer, LeBron James, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade all somehow ended up on the Miami Heat, and ninety percent of the general public responded by hatefully rooting against them. Im not sure there will ever be another time in Dirk Nowitzkis life when as


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Wanna play rough?

Scarface is the most popular movie Al Pacino has ever made. For a man considered to be among the greatest living actors of our time - one who has played scores of remarkable characters in many memorable films - this may seem to be an assertion made all t


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Dazzle goes off 'Razzle' as nightclub king declared bankrupt

Darren Thornburgh and Mimi Macpherson at the opening of Boutique nightclub in 2001.
MELBOURNE'S nightclub king Darren Thornburgh has been declared bankrupt, which is expected to spark several investigations of his exclusive Prahran club Boutique by corp


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News Shorts: September 29th 2011

"Despite the disappointing box-office for the recent fourth entry, Wes Craven believes there will still be a fifth "Scream" film - "It is something that Bob Weinstein wants to do. He tends to do what he wants to do. So I am inclined to think that there w


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Dubai-based Pinoy designer to stage first Manila fashion show

MANILA, Philippines -- Filipino fashion designer Michael Cinco owes the fame he is now enjoying to Tyra Banks, who focused the spotlight on him in Cycle 16 of her top-rating reality model search “America’s Next Model.”
Cinco instantly wowed American audi


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Scarface Finally Comes to Blu-Ray


“Well, what’s coming to you Tony?”
Upon its release in 1983, Scarface was hailed by some and reviled by many. The violence, profanity, drug use, and themes were shocking at the time and almost caused the film to be slapped with an X rating. Like other fi


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VIFF: Lesbian love story reigns in Cloudburst


VANCOUVER — He’s been flying under the radar with two aging lesbians, and for Thom Fitzgerald, that’s more of a blessing than a curse.
Hitting the festival circuit with Cloudburst, his first new movie since 2005’s 3 Needles, Fitzgerald says it’s a huge r


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A chance to slip on dorothy's shoes

The iconic red slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz are to go under the hammer in Los Angeles later this year.The shoes up for auction are believed to be those worn by Dorothy in the famous scene where she clicks her heels together to return


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For sale in NY: Kevorkian paintings and memorabilia

Southfield — An auction of Jack Kevorkian paintings and memorabilia planned next month will include the ex-pathologist's trademark golf hat and baby-blue cardigan sweater — and even one of his Mercitron assisted-suicide machines, his friend and former at


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Hull Daily Mail published DON'T MESS WITH DAME ON A MISSION

Undated Film Still Handout from The Debt. Pictured: Helen Mirren as Rachel Speed. See PA Feature FILM Mirren. Picture credit should read: PA Photo/Universal Pictures UK. WARNING: This picture must only be used to accompany PA Feature FILM Mirren.


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